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BY ELIZABETH FABRI
COPPER is in favour as demand picks up in China, while electric vehicle and the renewables boom looks to build sustainable price momentum into the future. Yet the base metal, as is the case for many commodities in 2017, has also been defined by its volatility. Will the good...

Image: Cox Architecture.
BY ELIZABETH FABRI
FORMER WA Government architect Steve Woodland has unveiled plans to build a $100 million mining museum in Perth to pay homage to the State’s rich mining history.
Mr Woodland, who now works as a principal director at architecture firm...

Australian Mines’ Sconi cobalt project. Image: Supplied.
BY CAMERON DRUMMOND
AUSTRALIAN mines has tapped investors for $20 million in a heavily-oversubscribed capital raising for its Sconi cobalt-nickel-scandium play in Northern QLD.
The funds will be used to continue trial mining...

Emeco has expanded its business at a critical time in the market. Image: Emeco.
BY CAMERON DRUMMOND
MINING equipment supplier Emeco Holdings will expand its market share with the $69.8 million purchase of national supplier and maintenance provider Force Equipment.
The acquisition will...

Image: The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office.
BY REUBEN ADAMS
MINERS are confident that China's unprecedented $US1.3 trillion infrastructure investment program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is the vehicle to drive massive medium to long term demand for iron...

Hundreds of industry workers descended on WA State Parliament on 10 October to protest the royalty increase. All images: The Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA.
BY ELIZABETH FABRI
THE WA Labor Government is licking its wounds after WA Liberals announced it will block its controversial...

METS Ignited general manager industry implementation Ian Dover presenting at the cluster launch.
BY ELIZABETH FABRI
THE Queensland Government has launched its METS Ignited Bowen Basin Cluster Program set to create more than 3000 additional mining technology jobs in the next decade.
The Mackay pilot...

Utilising both cities as FIFO hubs would minimise unforeseen travel risks and downtime. Image: Queensland Airports.
BY CAMERON DRUMMOND
A TWO horse race has ended in a dead heat, with both Rockhampton and Townsville to become FIFO hubs for Adani’s $16.5 billion Carmichael coal...